Judy Blume is in a class by herself among writers of books for children and young adults. In less than two decades her books have sold more than thirty million copies. Part of the Blume phenomenon is that her readers become involved with her as well as w...

Whether they find them in the library and read them with their parents, or borrow them from friends and secretly read them alone, young people love Judy Blume books. Millions and millions of sales, television and film adaptations, and numerous awards fro...

Perhaps the most popular contemporary author of works for upper elementary to junior high school readers, Judy Blume (born 1938) is the creator of frank, often humorous stories which focus on the emotional and social concerns of suburban adolescents. Alt...

SUMMER SISTERS Judy Blume. Delacorte, $21.95 (336p) ISBN 0-385-32405-7 Kid-lit giant Blume revisits familiar themes in her third adult novel (after Smart Women), an engaging coming-of-age story set during a series of summers on Martha's Vineyard in the late 1970s and early...

University Wire 09-02-1999 (The Towerlight) (U-WIRE) TOWSON, Md. -- An inspiration and role model to many children, Judy Blume is most known for her juvenile literature, including such classic tales as "Superfudge," "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing," "Blubber" and "Just as Long as...

Harvard Rules: The Struggle for the Soul of the World's Most Powerful University, by Richard Bradley. HarperCollins, 400 pages, $25.95. Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class, by Ross Gregory Douthat. Hyperion, 304 pages, $24.95. What is Harvard that we are mindful of...